Priorities

As my post directly below points out, a trigger-happy and inattentive Dick Cheney shooting a friend instead of a bird is just too easy a target for satire. Almost as easy a target as an old friend standing at point-blank range. (See how easy that was?) And, since nobody's died, the shooting is a lot less depressing subject than the war that it symbolizes.

But, unless somebody who was there claims that Cheney did it deliberately or negligently, it's not really important. It's just an accident, albeit an embarrassing and illustrative one.

On the other hand, Scooter Libby's claim that Cheney instructed him to reveal classified military information in order to discredit critics of the administration's handling of pre-war weapons intelligence IS important. Very important. If Libby's telling the truth, the Vice President of the United States jeopardized national security to run a political smear campaign. That's not only illegal and indictable, it's impeachable.